The humble Hyflbp on the wall, as well as the lofty Cedar, 
ihows plainly that an Almighty and an all-wife hand has 
formed it. Nature’s works are all complete, and the more 
minutely we obferve, inveftigate, and confider them, the more 
we muft admire the wifdom, and adore the goodnefs of the 
munificent and auguft Creator.-f 
To 
t Dr. R. Watfon, in his Chemical EiTays, vol. i. p. 86, has thus judicioufly 
obferved the furprifing and beautiful regularity of nature. 
There are a great many circumftances relative to the manner in which dif- 
“ ferent falts cryftallize, which cannot be infilled on .in this place; one 
“ thing deferves particularly to be remarked, that every fait in cryftallizing, 
invariably alTumes its own peculiar form. You may dilTolve common 
** fait, or faltpetre, a thoufand times, and chryftallize them as often by 
“ evaporating or cooling the water in which they are dilTolved, yet will you 
“ ftill find the common fait will be conftantly cryftallized in the form of a 
“ cube, and the faltpetre in the form of a prifm ; and if you examine with 
“ microfcope fuch faline particles as are not vifible to the naked eye, you 
will obferve thefe particles to be of the fame fhape with the larger malles. 
The definite figure appropriate to every particular fpecies of fait, may 
“ admit a little variety from the accidental admixture of other bodies, or 
“ from fame fingular circumftances attending the evaporation and cryftalli- 
“ zation of the folution ; but thefe varieties are foreign to the nature of the 
“ fait, and are not greater than what attend almoft every fpecies of vegeta- 
“ bles, and even of animals, from change of food and climate. 
Here a large field of inquiry opens to our view ; and though it be better, as 
“ Seneca has it, re ipfa queer ere quam mirari •, yet all our attempts to in- 
“ veftigate the works of God are weak and ineffedlual ; we feel his inter- 
ference every where, but we cannot apprehend the nature of his agency 
